The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

写作是抵抗记忆的抹去。

未来属于那些相信自己梦想之美的人。

经济学家需要三种伟大的智力才能：感知、想象和理性；而最重要的是他需要想象力。

Dictatorship is the natural enemy of literature.

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.

孔子说：“三军可以剥夺主帅，匹夫不可剥夺志向。”

Sustainable development requires balancing economic growth with ecological protection.